Commit 09d3f3f0 authored by David S. Miller's avatar David S. Miller
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sparc: Kill PROM console driver. 



Many years ago when this driver was written, it had a use, but these
days it's nothing but trouble and distributions should not enable it
in any situation.

Pretty much every console device a sparc machine could see has a
bonafide real driver, making the PROM console hack unnecessary.

If any new device shows up, we should write a driver instead of
depending upon this crutch to save us.  We've been able to take care
of this even when no chip documentation exists (sunxvr500, sunxvr2500)
so there are no excuses.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 0cb583fd

Documentation/dontdiff

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@@ -152,7 +152,6 @@ piggy.gz 
piggyback

pnmtologo

ppc_defs.h*

promcon_tbl.c

pss_boot.h

qconf

raid6altivec*.c

arch/sparc/kernel/setup_32.c

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@@ -268,8 +268,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p) 


#ifdef CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE

	conswitchp = &dummy_con;

#elif defined(CONFIG_PROM_CONSOLE)

	conswitchp = &prom_con;

#endif

	boot_flags_init(*cmdline_p);

arch/sparc/kernel/setup_64.c

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@@ -295,8 +295,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p) 


#ifdef CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE

	conswitchp = &dummy_con;

#elif defined(CONFIG_PROM_CONSOLE)

	conswitchp = &prom_con;

#endif



	idprom_init();

drivers/char/vt.c

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@@ -2948,9 +2948,6 @@ int __init vty_init(const struct file_operations *console_fops) 
		panic("Couldn't register console driver\n");

	kbd_init();

	console_map_init();

#ifdef CONFIG_PROM_CONSOLE

	prom_con_init();

#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE

	mda_console_init();

#endif

drivers/video/console/.gitignore

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# conmakehash generated file

promcon_tbl.c

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